What language is most similar to JavaScript?@Akshat: Thanks, but it's just a link and I don't think it's answer worthy unless I make a summary of it or add something to it. I don't really have time to do that right now, but you (or anybody else) can do it if you want to.

Web developer to software engineerI wasn't being precise, but what I wanted to say is that doing things for the web isn't less valuable than doing some other types of applications. You can be a project architect or a code monkey, it doesn't matter whether you're doing stuff for the web in Ruby or doing something finance-related in Java. (I do realize that bringing the whole issue up was a mistake / not constructive, but I had the need to give an explanation before retreating from this discussion.)